Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fair bit of pressure is needed to get the chips securely seated and a broken motherboard tends to perform rather more slowly than a complete one ! |
| 2 | The men and women of Mandru 's household interacted rather more freely than was common among the upper class of Shanariah . |
| 3 | Whereas the serial usage of Example 139 ( the same series in each voice ) easily avoids the occurrence of octaves , octaves are formed only too easily when we use different forms together , as on the second quaver of the last bar , where all voices sound D or E♭ . |
| 4 | Local government capital expenditure is ‘ cash limited ’ , but current expenditure is cash limited only as far as the overall total of the Rate Support Grant ( RSG ) 3 is concerned . |
| 5 | We need to go only as far as eqn ( 2.21 ) . |
| 6 | Pricing restraints are treated much more harshly than non-price restraints . |
| 7 | The tendency to see only as far as the limit of particular function . |
| 8 | They got only as far as the gate of Cell Block 6B . |
| 9 | Unfortunately these conditions also much reduced their rate of march and they got only as far as Polmood , for they were now in the high uplands of the infant Tweed and the going difficult at the best of times . |
| 10 | Tree-living kangaroos got only as far as New Guinea . |
| 11 | In practice , this situation will arise only very rarely if a regime of symptom control and no more has been adopted . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , most natural populations , at most times , change much more slowly than they would if subjected to strong directional selection . |
| 13 | The rule for raising before velars , however , is strong and active and does not seem to have begun to recede lexically : in word-list style ( which is usually considered to be formal ) it persists much more strongly than post-velar raising ; neologisms undergo the rule , and it affects spelling ( see the discussion of ‘ occasional spellings ’ below ) . |
| 14 | Murray and Ramsay rode together as far as the ford at Sunlaws , a wooded terrain of bluffs and hillocks , another Heiton peel-tower and the riverside mill . |
| 15 | They sit only so long as they continue to hold episcopal office . |
| 16 | It goes together as simply as a child 's building blocks |
| 17 | That gives him the space to make long-term bets , but also deprives him of advice against short-sightedness : borrowing sums that he can service only so long as the good times roll . |
| 18 | Bill Shankly will be laughing somewhere up there as well . |
| 19 | The forms need to show the maximum possible numbers to include everyone on role at any time between January and December — please return them at or before the Reunion , but let us know verbally as soon as possible of any major changes — the office likes to give up to date information to enquirers . |
| 20 | Almost equal , but not quite , because Luke still seemed to retain a vestige of control while she trembled wildly as his hands slid adroitly up over her ribcage to cup her breasts from beneath , lifting them to the swooping descent of his dark head ; and she heard him mutter intensely again just before his mouth took voluptuous possession of the heated hardness of one exquisitely sensitive nipple . |
| 21 | If your crops fail , or grow much less prolifically than your neighbour 's , then it is due to witchcraft . |
| 22 | It was true , of course , that property was dispersed much more widely than in Europe . |
| 23 | Let hair dry naturally as often as you can . |
| 24 | Gartner believes that by 1995 ‘ Sun will compromise much more substantially than it previously has , de-emphasizing Sun-specific application programming interfaces and services such as Open Network Computing and Open Look in favour of X/Open , OSF and USL-endorsed interfaces . ’ |
| 25 | kids might have to be uprooted all over again because it 's too far from her |
| 26 | And Clara , overcome by the wonderful , felicitous acceptability of his offer , an offer so familiar to her , so marvellously manageable , trembled only most slightly as she said , staring down at the limp arrangements of her hands , " Oui , surement . " |
| 27 | It is important to be clear then about our reasons for feeling that we had to explain why women have come so far rather than explaining why there had been so few gains . |
| 28 | There is , therefore , no reason why taxation always encourages people to work less hard rather than harder , as so many have claimed . |
| 29 | It is his 81st , is dedicated to the pit communities for which he still cares so deeply even though the pits have all but vanished , and costs £1 for a miner 's sideways look at life which is probably no more . |
| 30 | A system can be designed much more economically if it can be assumed that skilled personnel are available to control and take care of it . |